How To Use Overcast In A Sentence
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A little bit overcast is actually a lot better than a sunny sky for us out there," Miller said.
NHL players excited to go outdoors in Buffalo's chill
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Our weather today is most disappointing, overcast and sort of dampish.
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It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
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If summer sun is supposed to turn thoughts to romance, this year 's washout must be making the unattached feel as downcast as the overcast skies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smoothly we left the ground, raised our undercarts, and climbed away into that overcast, threatening sky.
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It was a slightly glum day, the vivid blue of the sky partially hidden by overcast, and the silky gray rainbirds taking flight in the chill air.
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Back into the overcast, 54 F and calm with a dewpoint of 50.
Jhetley: More gray
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The sky overhead was overcast with great gray clouds, and the atmosphere was actually kind of moody.
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Though the overcast sky threatens rain at some later point in the day, the early afternoon is still pleasant enough for sitting outdoors.
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But an overcast day could take the edge off the vanishing act.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had overcast on a small lake and put his rig into a tree on the distant bank.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is rather dim under the trees on an overcast, damp day, and hard to keep your foothold on the slippery bank.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Fancier edge stitches could include binding with lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
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The West Indies were constrained early in their chase by some healthy swing bowling aided by the overcast conditions.
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During the winter a shirt with an undershirt is usually sufficient except on overcast and colder days when a light jacket will help.
Cuernavaca
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The beach was virtually deserted on Monday afternoon because of the overcast weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had dawned overcast and gloomy, with just a glimmer of light to the south.
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It was a cool, overcast day, very autumny, which is probably the best weather for some d-nuts and vanilla-flavored coffee.
Om nom nom until the doughnuts come home
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On this night the sky was overcast, the ground soggy from a day's rain and the place mostly deserted.
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It has been such a boost to do this in overcast weather, that I have made up my mind to get a pretty calender for ever single room next year.
Updates
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Out over the Adriatic the overcast thickened to 10/10 and stratocumulus clouds reared up to 15,000 feet.
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The sun lanced through the overcast veil of blizzard-clouds and snow-squalls and gilded the twin vessels in shining gold.
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I dislike with intensity days like today, it was dull, overcast and intermittently pouring with rain and my mood was only marginally better.
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In what other sport but cricket could you get 26,000 people splashing around in the puddles of a filthily overcast ground, waiting in vain for a game that might never resume?
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As she steps off the elevator and notices the detective unit's closed door, her internal weather turns overcast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tweed walked out into the overcast Place Bel-Air and crossed a bridge spanning the Rhône.
COVER STORY
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You could see nothing but the cirrus overcast from horizon to horizon.
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To see a once-thriving city reduced to beggary and emptiness, to live one day at a time in point of food and medicine, to see an old European order brutally and efficiently overturned, to notice the utterly casual way in which human life can be snuffed out, and to see war machines wheeling and diving in the overcast sky: such an education!
The Catastrophist
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Rolling over and stretching, she reached for the nearest curtain and threw it back, letting in a dark light, due to the overcast skies and rainy weather.
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The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shuttler penetrated the overcast about ten miles off target, located, and started its approach.
Attrition
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The glitz and glamour was in stark contrast to the mostly dull, overcast weather.
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Night had fallen sullenly over the storm ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with heavy drops of rain spitting down from the wet, grey, overcast sky.
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As a result, when it reaches the British Isles it tends to produce dull, overcast weather often with drizzle.
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It is an overcast morning, with a threat of drizzle in the air.
Times, Sunday Times
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The day is hot, humid, and overcast - the kind of day that frizzes hair and dampens spirits.
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The sky is overcast and tough mining towns along the have the sullen air of relations off the wedding list.
Times, Sunday Times
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A field with a standing crop of wheat had a wide wild-flower margin with ox-eye daisies, red clover, sainfoin, poppies and trefoils – to name a few – and I was disappointed not to see a single butterfly, perhaps because it was overcast.
Country diary: East Yorkshire
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I go through each day and it seems like each day is dull or overcast.
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Regional Airport was 7,000 ft overcast with seven miles visibility in light rain.
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When I released it this morning, it merely hunched on the ground beneath a woolly bush, its feathers fluffed up, and grey as the overcast day.
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Her brow crimsoned, and that of Sir Halbert Glendinning was slightly overcast.
The Abbot
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Despite a dull and overcast day, their welcome could not have been warmer, traditional Irish hospitality being extended by all.
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Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer").
Cirrus Concerns
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Don't take it for granted that an overcast day is safe for your skin; UV light can penetrate clouds and harm unprotected skin.
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As a result, when it reaches the British Isles it tends to produce dull, overcast weather often with drizzle.
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Instead, the mists of passion steamed up out of the puddly concupiscence of the flesh, and the hot imagination of puberty, and they so obscured and overcast my heart that I was unable to distinguish pure affection from unholy desire.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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In the first dawn of my manhood the old painters of Italy had taught me their dangerous worship of the beauty that is more than mortal, but those images all seemed shadowy now, and floated before me so dimly, the one overcasting the other, that they left me no one sweet idol on which I could look and look again and say,
Eothen
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I looked out the window and saw black overcast in the distance.
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Fancier edge stitches could include binding with Lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
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The outermost limits came first - the sky, with a pale shine of overcast through the bare branches of the trees.
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The snow hasn't quite started as of yet this season, but judging from the gray overcast and the fringed icy wind, you can tell it really wants to.
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But forecasters expect overcast skies and scattered showers this week.
The Sun
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The visibility was limited somewhat by a grey, overcast sky and plankton bloom, which constrained the photography to macro shots.
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A night of calm, when sleep is well-nigh impossible in the sultry, muggy air, may be followed by a day of blazing sun and an oily swell from the south'ard, connoting great gales in that area of ocean we are sailing toward -- or all day long the Elsinore, under an overcast sky, royals and sky sails furled, may plunge and buck under wind-pressure into a short and choppy head-sea.
CHAPTER XXVII
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There are three different stitches that can be used for securing the edge of eyelets or slits: the basic overcasting stitch whip stitch, blanket stitch and buttonhole stitch.
Archive 2009-10-01
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Despite overcast skies, the rain held off and the day was enjoyed by all who attended.
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While eastern parts were overcast on Monday, northwestern areas enjoyed warmth and sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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The overcast sky and the foggy shoreline sandwiched the towering city behind them whilst the four travelers made their way down the beach to the water.
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When I woke this morning it was overcast and there was a hint of drizzle in the air.
The Sun
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Conditions were in contrast to the recent good Irish weather; overcast skies, cool temperatures and a slight headwind, which suited the Irish.
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They ran in silence with their unresolved arguments hanging over them like the grey, dreary overcast sky.
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The weather was cool and overcast, with a slight sprinkle of rain at mid-day.
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If summer sun is supposed to turn thoughts to romance, this year's washout must be making the unattached feel as downcast as the overcast skies.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a semblance of swing on an overcast morning and spin on a sunlit afternoon, but the conditions were no excuse for a limp batting performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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But then one's outlook is always coloured by one's inlook, and an overcast mind sees all things shadowed.
Pearl of Pearl Island
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The weather was typical of this time of year with dull, overcast skies, intermittent drizzle and a drop in temperature.
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The next morning we awoke to overcast skies and a light snowfall, but I was too excited about the challenge of the day to be bothered by the weather, as we geared up with our ski suits, gaiters, rucksacks and the all important snowshoes.
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The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above me, the sky was grey and overcast, the rain pelting down upon the rocky mountainside in steady sheets, running down to feed the rivers and lakes.
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The sky was the sort of overcast that was not just gray, but the kind of gray that bled the color from all the things around it, a thick smog filling the air, ominous and foul.
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Thursday brightened into an overcast, showery day with belts of dark and paler grey cloud scudding across the sky.
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The visibility was good enough to work, and although I found out to my surprise that the cloud deck at 8,000 feet was a solid overcast, I blasted out the code word for go and the strike was on.
Thud Ridge
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The gargantuan black clouds were overcast by a dense, opaque fog, ever converging, camouflaged with the caliginous sky that surrounded.
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The suicide of dayovercast and rainy leads meeting heighten, be why?
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A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chicago Tribune: UFO Over O'Hare?
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We of course wanted clear skies or our efforts would be thwarted but the morning had been very overcast and we were not hopeful.
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A day that began cold and overcast finished in bright sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Planted with lemon trees in warmer months and clipped hollies for the rest of the year, they seem to glow an ultramarine colour even in overcast conditions, and look even more dramatic when lit at night.
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It was beautifully sunny for many, although coasts were cool and overcast and there were heavy showers in the northwest.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a matter of seconds, what had seemed like a slightly hazy early afternoon now seemed overcast.
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When I woke this morning it was overcast and there was a hint of drizzle in the air.
The Sun
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The day was overcast, so the light was tinted with a peculiar green-grey.
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And a somewhat overcast sky has dulled the ocean's blues.
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If the economy were to have a weather forecast, the outlook would be overcast: gloomy with patches of rain for the next five years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet in the ledgered plainness of the day, overcast, common, some subtle brush of meaning held me.
One More...
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As he wrote a shadow overcast his folder, and he looked up to see Sarah standing next to him.
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Pedal boats and tents can be hired at spots along the road and even on this somewhat grey and overcast day, the bright sails of windsurfers and sailing boats could be seen scudding across the lake.
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I began a turn to a downwind pattern to stay close to base and remain underneath the overcast.
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Overcast the cut edges so they don't fray, then toss the item in the machine by itself in case of colour bleed.
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-- Calm night; sky overcast with hazy cumulostratus clouds; an easterly breeze sprung up towards morning, making the air much colder.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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As a biting wind lashed Kirkgate and the rain fell from a grey, overcast sky, ordinary people thankful for the extraordinary courage of their police joined officers to pay their respects.
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Why are there occasions when a low, thick overcast of clouds appears to be heavy with moisture but no rain occurs?
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A day that began cold and overcast finished in bright sunshine.
Times, Sunday Times
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THE clouds were gathering fast -- the waters were troubled -- and the approaching tumult and disquiet of all things in Carolina, clearly indicated the coming of that strife, so soon to overcast the scene -- so long to keep it darkened -- so deeply to impurple it with blood.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
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I was also glad that she hadn't kept me waiting since the sky was overcast and it was slightly chilly.
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The bottom edge of the waist may be finished by overcasting.
Textiles and Clothing
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To gather, whip the rolled hem without hemming, making overcasting stitches towards you, even and not too fine.
Textiles and Clothing
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They commonly intimated themselves parenthetically in the midst of some blissful talk they were having, and overcast his clear sky with retrospective ideals of conduct or presentimental plans for contingencies that might never occur.
April Hopes
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Sew to the wire closely with an overcasting stitch or with a running stitch just inside of the wire.
Make Your Own Hats
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The large windows overlooked the skyline, which was overcast with black clouds.
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Thursday brightened into an overcast, showery day with belts of dark and paler grey cloud scudding across the sky.
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In a game that started in windy, overcast conditions at M&T Bank Stadium - the home of the Baltimore Ravens - Notre Dame took control in the third quarter before the rain came and drove much of the crowd of 70,932 to the exits early.
USATODAY.com
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The morning was shaded by an overcast gray sky.
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The outermost limits came first - the sky, with a pale shine of overcast through the bare branches of the trees.
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The weather was overcast and gray but rain held off for the entire day until the group was on its way back to the cars.
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The early fall blast of intense heat follows an unusually cool summer that often found beaches covered in overcast and whipped by chilly winds.
Los Angeles Heat Wave Bakes At Record 113 Degrees
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That morning, the sky had been overcast.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a cold, overcast morning, but there are about ten dogs capering across the beach off-leash.
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In spite of the overcast skies and chilly weather, the Scots came through on top, beating the Cobbers 4-0.
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The day had become overcast.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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The sky is definitely looking menacing with its gray overcast.
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It was overcast and a bit chilly.
Times, Sunday Times
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The beach was virtually deserted on Monday afternoon because of the overcast weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fortunately the day was overcast, so we didn't have a scorching sun in which to carry around tiny twins and all their essential equipment, apparatuses, impedimenta, equipage and whatnot.
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But an overcast day could take the edge off the vanishing act.
Times, Sunday Times
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The day had become overcast.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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The morning was gray and overcast, but now the sun has come out of hiding and is scattering its golden light like so many glittering coins through the woods around us.
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Those ultimate classic trenches with contrast piping at Chanel made everyone wish for overcast skies.
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The sky was overcast and cloudy, and a thick fog blanketed everything.
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The little village was overcast by the morning fog.
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Despite continuing rain and heavy overcast, Burke launched the attack.
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Their transmission distance and speed are limited. With its overcast of the country and the data transmission function, GSM network will be widely used in the AMRS.
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The sky is overcast and tough mining towns along the have the sullen air of relations off the wedding list.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before us, in the bersaglieri trench, a bold stove-pipe luxuriates the overcast ceiling with smoke-trails amid argent oriency.
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It was a gray day outside, periodic flakes drifting out of the overcast.
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Apparently, Rawls hasn't considered the fact that many Muslims already know when the exact prayer times are each day - obviating the need for a "sundial" - or what happens on an overcast day and the "sundial" can't be used - I grew up a few hundred miles away from the site of the Memorial, and am well familiar with that part of Pennsylvania and its climate.
Archive 2006-01-01
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The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Jamaicans were frozen, despite the overcast weather.
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One minute it was lovely and the Sun was warm on my bare legs, the next minute it was dull, overcast, and horribly humid.
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The dark overcast hid any hint of the sun, and a bitterly cold wind swept in out of the west, carrying a promise of snow.
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But forecasters expect overcast skies and scattered showers this week.
The Sun
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It was overcast and a bit chilly.
Times, Sunday Times
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On overcast afternoons, all alone in the drizzle, my mother, carrying a basket (stained blue on the inside by somebody's whortleberries), would set out on a long collecting tour.
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The grass was dry and bleached after an almost rainless autumn, but the sky was overcast and heavy with the foreshowing of change.
A River So Long
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And the things that sergers can do well, such as overcasting raw edges, making blind hems, rolled, hems, and the like, a standard sewing machine can usually do, although it may take a bit more fiddling.
A Thank-You Note - A Dress A Day
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Dusk was past, a heavy overcast blocked the starlight, and outside of the incandescent glow that spilled from the open door, the darkness was complete.
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There was a cloudburst in the afternoon with lots of lightening and thunder and today is overcast with light showers.
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That morning, the sky had been overcast.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can burn spring, summer, winter, and fall - don't be fooled by cold, breezy or overcast days.
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stars shining faintly through the overcast
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As she steps off the elevator and notices the detective unit's closed door, her internal weather turns overcast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Persistent showers and overcast skies did not stop the people of Antigua and Barbuda from going to the polls in general elections on Tuesday.
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Hopefully conditions will be overcast so we can put some pressure on the batsmen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sky was overcast and a light rain began to fall.
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The usual five-hour match period around midday should do the field few favours unless conditions are dull and overcast.
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She had to turn her desk light on as the morning had turned overcast and muggy.
AFTERMATH
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But forecasters expect overcast skies and scattered showers this week.
The Sun
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It stands outside my window like a huge lamp that sheds its light into my room, and even when the day is overcast, they dissipate the melancholy and scatter away all mistiness.
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Rain fell from overcast skies and gale force winds drove large waves on to the beaches of Normandy as dawn broke on Monday June 5, 1944.
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Shame she chose the only overcast day of the weekend to do it.
The Sun
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There was a splash of sunlight late morning in what has otherwise been a dull, overcast day, and I went out to sit in it for as long as it lasted.
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When that happened, it was like a sunny day that had suddenly become overcast.
Times, Sunday Times
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The overcast and drizzly weather stretched all the way from Hadrian's Wall to the Shetland Islands, making Scots reach for their umbrellas and cardies rather than parasols and bikinis.
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Once grass starts sprouting and leaves begin to unfurl on trees, the vegetation gives the world a greenish cast on an overcast day.
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A flying saucerlike object hovered low over O\'Hare International Airport for several minutes before bolting through thick clouds with such intense energy that it left an eerie hole in overcast skies, said some United Airlines employees who observed the phenomenon. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Chicago Tribune: UFO Over O'Hare?
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The course, as always, was immaculately presented and the weather was oppressive on the first day and overcast for the second round.
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The weather was typical of this time of year with dull, overcast skies, intermittent drizzle and a drop in temperature.
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Skyscrapers shoot out of the ground like mushrooms overnight, and each humid and often overcast day brings a fresh twist in the tangle of four-lane carriageways that snake through the city.
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The morning was overcast with a gentle wind and it perfectly matched the sombre mood of the contestants.
Times, Sunday Times
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The goggles are designed to change their shade to cope with anything from an overcast day of flat white light to blinding ultraviolet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, the monsoon overcast tended to cut down the amount of solar energy available.
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When that happened, it was like a sunny day that had suddenly become overcast.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will remain overcast and perhaps wet at first as the remnants of our low pressure area eases away.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had to turn her desk light on as the morning had turned overcast and muggy.
AFTERMATH
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Allie squinted at the seemingly still water which mirrored the overcast sky.
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The sky is overcast, clouded by dank mists of humidity thronging the volcanoes and mountains.
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One afternoon three of them came in from the sea in close line astern under a solid overcast.
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But Masrur knew naught of her return and abode with concern overcast and sorrow might not be overpast; no peace prevailed with him nor was patience possible to him.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Flying conditions were similar in both years, mainly under sunny skies and scattered clouds with some periods of high or low overcast.
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The goggles are designed to change their shade to cope with anything from an overcast day of flat white light to blinding ultraviolet.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the day in late July when I hiked up to Fort Tryon, the weather was cold and overcast---a strange flash-forward to fall.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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That afternoon the weather was overcast and somewhat dismal, with light snow falling almost continually.
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With a mongrel of overcast sun straying to and from her heels, she scoured all three for conspicuous features related to light.
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The wind was blowing strong and the sky was overcast and dull.
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Without their bravery, courage and sacrifice on a dull, overcast morning in early summer in 1944, the free Europe would not exist today.
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Its main purpose was for bombing through an overcast.
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The crew was last seen descending through thin overcast toward the target area and it never reappeared.
Baker, Arthur D.
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There were overcast skies, intermittent rain and heavy mists.
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Even on cloudy days, there is a lot of scattered radiation - and so PV cells generate energy even when it's overcast.
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Came dark, overcast days, stiff, driving winds and Pelting rains, day on day, without end, and the city folk cowered in their dwelling-places like flood-beset rats; and like rats, half-drowned and gasping, when the weather cleared they crawled out and up the green Piedmont slopes to bask in the blessed sunshine.
The Golden Poppy
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The outermost limits came first - the sky, with a pale shine of overcast through the bare branches of the trees.
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It was an overcast morning with thunderstorms predicted, and although it rained and hailed around lunchtime, most of the day remained fine.
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Dr. Danvers, on the other hand, tranquil and solemn, and with, perhaps, some shade of awe overcasting the habitual sweetness of his countenance.
The Evil Guest
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If the economy were to have a weather forecast, the outlook would be overcast: gloomy with patches of rain for the next five years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer").
Cirrus Concerns
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The whole sky was now overcast with heavy clouds and a part of it even looked a little green.
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At the airport he gave them a standard briefing and an update on the New York surface weather, which was stagnant under a low, thin overcast, with light winds and thickening haze.
The Crash of EgyptAir 990
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A fine, misty rain fell lightly from the overcast sky, which hung in a looming shade of dull grey.
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Hopefully conditions will be overcast so we can put some pressure on the batsmen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sky was partially overcast with high cumulostratus clouds, and a light breeze blew from the east, but nothing to indicate a thunderstorm in any direction.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
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The next morning we awoke to overcast skies and a light snowfall, but I was too excited about the challenge of the day to be bothered by the weather, as we geared up with our ski suits, gaiters, rucksacks and the all important snowshoes.
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Overcast skies (typically 7-8 okta of stratus) reduced exposures by a mean of 54%.
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It will remain overcast and perhaps wet at first as the remnants of our low pressure area eases away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trim off edges and finish with binding or close overcasting.
Textiles and Clothing
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Fall weather often overcasts our beaches
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It had stopped raining, but was still very overcast; even so, the lights of Manhattan and the armada of cruise ships and powerboats spread out underneath us were spectacular.
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As was common during the war, only the flight leader would fly by instruments through this overcast.
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After five days of sunshine at the beginning of the month, the sixth saw overcast skies and rain as the result of a trough of low pressure.
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Dim light from the grey overcast sky outside passed faintly into the room.
